On Feb. 7, there was a march in Oakland, CA to oppose fracking. One of the main banners of the march was to call for “climate leadership.” This has been the slogan […]
Anti Fracking Protests in Romania
Global oil depletion meet environmental protesters. New supplies of the “low hanging fruit” – that is, the easy-to-reach and pump oil – is more or less gone, so capitalism is having to develop […]
Fracking is serious business
Anybody who thinks that Corporate America, and Corporate World are not totally dedicated to expanding the use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) should take a look at recent news. Item: The Obama administration […]
US Economic Recovery & Fracking
When the US economy collapsed in 2007-2008, many people thought it signaled a long-term economic crisis. That does not seem to have happened, so far. Although the recovery has not been very strong, it has […]
Fracking Hearing
Fracking can no more be regulated to be made safe than can mass murder be made humane. But it’s not only for scientific reasons; it’s also for political ones. Also attached is […]
Fracking Meeting Sunday, June 23
Reminder to SF Bay Area Residents: Meeting on Sunday, June 23 Capitalism & the Disaster of Hydraulic Fracking Sunday, June 23; 10:30 a.m. Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph, Oakland
Josh Fox tears up proponents of fracking
Here is Josh Fox, maker of Gasland and Gasland II, being interviewed on the Maher show. He is attacked by some proponents of fracking and gives no quarter. He is not intimidated […]
The Devil’s Triangle: How Big Green, Mainstream Labor & Democrats Derail the Struggle to Stop Fracking
by John Reimann Fracking kills. It kills by poisoning the earth, the water and the air. It kills by destroying wilderness and open space areas. It kills by destroying our quality of […]
Book Review: “Dead Epidemiologists” by Rob Wallace
(By John Reimann, Oaklandsocialist administrator and reprinted from Left Voice.) There is currently a record 90,000 hospitalized with Covid-19, and over a quarter of a million people in the United States have […]
President Joe Biden: “The Dog that Caught the Car”
The coming removal of Bigot-in-Chief DonaldTrump from the White House was met with dancing in the street across the country. Rightfully so. However, we should also keep this exchange in mind: “You’re […]